Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 vs ATI Radeon HD 3650

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code nameRV635Cedar Trail
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 January 2008 (16 years ago)1 November 2011 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1204
Core clock speed725 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors378 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.800no data
Floating-point processing power0.174 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Videono data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)no data
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 January 2008 1 November 2011
Chip lithography 55 nm 32 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 71.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3650 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3650 is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 is a notebook one.


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